VANCOUVER — Researchers studying the activity of whales off British Columbia’s coast have had an unusual and “surreal” encounter with a sperm whale. “We started inferring that it was a sperm whale and kind of convinced each other that’s what it was,” he said Wednesday. They sent recordings to other specialists who study sperm whales and had their suspicion confirmed. Sperm whales are typically found in deep waters offshore, Towers said. I spend a lot of days on the water researching whales, that’s what I do, and I’ve never known there to be a sperm whale here before,” he said.

Source: National Post February 14, 2018 21:23 UTC